Jon Boutwell:  

Greetings fellow classmates, 05 January 2010 Since I left high school my life has taken a lot of changes. The first year after graduated I got married, became a father, and uncle Sam chose my number to join his band of brothers. I immediately joined the Air Force because Vietnam didn¿t appeal to me. I spent my first duty in South Dakota for two years; very cold in the winter and beautiful in the summer time. I then got lucky and got assigned overseas in The Netherlands( Holland ) for the remainder of my military requirement. I was able to have my family at both assignments. I wasn¿t really sure where Holland was until I looked on the map and discovered it was just across the North Sea from England and more or less the centre of Europe. I quickly found out that the base I was assigned was considered one of the country club assignments with only fifteen hundred personnel assigned, one big family. We enjoyed our stay here and were able to see a lot of Europe. In 1977 my tour ended and my wife and daughter had returned to the states six months earlier than myself. I soon received a real dear Jon letter stating that she wanted a divorce. When I returned to the states I first had to disengage myself from the military at a base in New Jersey. April fools day 1977 was my last day, which I thought was a proper way of telling Uncle Sam how much fun I had had. I returned to Florida for my divorce and to my wife¿s surprise informed her I was retu...Expand for more